How to learn php development

1. Pre-school preparation

1. It is recommended that you first have an overall understanding of the website and what you need to learn to make the website. You need to have an understanding of knowledge to determine your own learning direction. Don't learn it halfway and feel that you are not suitable for it, and then change your path halfway. This is a waste of time and is not the mentality that people who study technology should have. (Recommended learning: PHP video tutorial)

2. What is PHP? There is a lot of information on the Internet. I won’t go into details here. You must take a good look at it yourself. Because it is open source, you can download a lot of source code from some websites, or even the entire site source code. But if you want to learn well, you should design many things by yourself instead of secondary development.

3. I would like to emphasize that PHP is not as simple as some people on the Internet say. It just has simple syntax, and you still need to work hard to deepen it.

2. Learning sequence

(1) Be familiar with basic elements of web pages such as HTML/CSS/JS

(2) Understand the concept of dynamic language, Operating mechanism, familiar with PHP syntax

(3)Learn how to combine PHP and HTML to complete simple dynamic pages

(4)Get in touch with MYSQL, start designing database programs, and learn the basics of database Operation

(5) Learn a template (smarty is recommended), session control session and cookie, ajax

(6) Continue to learn how to design an excellent database

Notepad can be used during the learning stage, but its development efficiency is low. Other development tools must be used during development. Eclipse and Zend Studio are the two most commonly used tools.

Eclipse is a completely free product, and Zend Studio (an integrated development software) is charged, but its cracking method is very simple. Of course, there are other development software, and you can choose the one that suits you.

When you first start learning, you basically have to learn how to set up a lamp or wamp environment. The process of setting up an environment is not much, but you may encounter a lot of problems (you may be lucky enough to set it up in one go). Don't be discouraged, it will be solved.

Although you don’t need so much database knowledge in the early stages of learning PHP, it is necessary to know how to use it. Once you can develop a website, designing a good database will become the key to a successful website.

In the process of learning, you must also prepare various development manuals, php manuals, mysql manuals, and some framework manuals.

php is a back-end language, but before learning the back-end, you need to learn the front-end language, DIV CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and ajax to implement asynchronous transmission.

Learning ajax is basically a must, but it is best to learn javascript and xml before learning it, so that you can understand the principles in essence.

There are a lot of software specifically used to manage and design databases. This is very convenient, but you must know the sql language to better design the database and use it to related to the database in php. operation.

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